Optimus UI - prime-select is missing

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 $ pamac search bumblebee --no-aur
bumblebee  3.2.1-23                                       extra
    NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux through Primus/VirtualGL

It is quite confusing how Nvidia support their cards.

When searching the Nvidia site for K1100M I couldn’t find it

https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/465.27/README/supportedchips.html

The list doesn’t even mention K1100…

I have no idea which driver you can use - the hwid 10de has been used with GTX 760, Titan and various quadro cards - perhaps the 570.xx driver is supported - there is a reason why gaming on Linux prefers AMD - I remember my early Linux days using Nvidia - back in the late 90’es - it was a pain - possibly why I didn’t make the transition back then.

→ More tools for Optimus laptops are now available

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Thanks, that search will be useful, I made a note about that.

Meanwhile, I already found the bumblebee version which works with my graphic card.

I am back to my former question (see the previous post), that is how can I properly install the NV-CONTROL X extension? as that is still not working.

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It could be that this isn’t supported with such old graphics, or with bumblebee, or both. :man_shrugging:

The automatic switching option is apparently popular, where the Intel GPU is used primarily to preserve power, and the Nvidia GPU is engaged when a program requires it (games, for example), but with older hardware this can be troublesome.

As I understand it, installing optimus-manager allows switching from Intel to Nvidia, and GreenWithEnvy (gwe) should automatically start to facilitate this.

Warnings such as;

might usually suggest something is not installed/available.

Instructions found might be X or Wayland specific, or indeed might be rather ambiguous, such as some of the information in the Arch Wiki link provided in this post.

Regards.

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It is quite possible that your device is unsupported - and if it is so - then you cannot.

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@soundofthunder @linux-aarhus
I was trying to play around with it yesterday - I found out I should be using Plasma (not wayland), which I do, so that´s fine.

According to the official repo of GreenWIthEnvy Flatpak does not support Bumblebee, but should be usable by installing from the source code and then being called with:

optirun gwe --ctrl-display ":8"

But I havent been able to make it run yet:

[ 578.397451] [ERROR]You’ve no permission to communicate with the Bumblebee daemon. Try adding yourself to the ‘bumblebee’ group
[ 578.397476] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

I will try to play around with it a bit.

Edit://
I made some progress, I needed to:
1.) Add yourself to bumblebee group, enable bumblebee service, then restart

sudo gpasswd -a username bumblebee
systemctl enable bumblebeed.service

After that, add this line under the “Device” section in /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

BusID “PCI:01:00:0”

Now, when I try to run
optirun gwe --ctrl-display ":8"

it says:

Error running “gwe”: No such file or directory

Which confuses me, because it is installed. Will try to continue tomorrow.

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Well, let’s correct your understanding, shall we? :slight_smile:

  • (KDE) Plasma is your Desktop Environment.
  • The choice should be between Xorg (usually just called “X”) and Wayland

It’s not surprising that graphics of such a vintage in conjunction with Bumblebee might not be supported under Wayland.

Xorg was the focus in those dim, dark times. Now, the focus is on Wayland, and we have little choice but to make the transition; though, it truly will be worth it, long term.

What concerns me it the potential for wasting much time, fruitlessly; but, it’s your time to waste. :wink:

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@Gizm0

I think you are looking at the wrong way.

You are trying to make a given software work with a given hardware.

Whereas you should be asking a more relevant the question

Is the hardware in question supported by the software?

→ See Monty Python’s Complete Waste of Time

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@linux-aarhus @soundofthunder Don´t get me wrong, I don´t want to waste your or mine time - I am just simply trying to find a working solution, that´s it :slight_smile:

And since I got this far, I did not wanted to give up so easily. Especially when according to official text it should work when installed from the source code.

I wasn´t able to make it run though.

I´ll just move on and hope the card will be usable even without it.
If I by any chance will find a way how to make it work, I will post it here.